Long-time lurker, first-time poster. I've been watching the videos of the Montreal World Championships from swim.ee, a great web site. At the start of the second semi-final of the men's 50 freestyle, I saw something quite shocking. In the first underwater shot, right after the dive, Salim Iles is very clearly doing a two-beat crossover kick. It's an eye-catching technique at sprint speed, because he appears to be "squirming" through the water. Look at it yourself. Slow motion will help you see it better. Also watch the segment at 1:16 in, where Iles is in the background, still on the shoulder of Roland Schoeman, still using a classic non-overt kicking style. His time for the race was 22.14, a personal best.
What do we make of this? Could Iles go faster with a six-beat kick? Should we slower swimmers, especially those with inflexible ankles and/or small feet, consider this style of sprinting?
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Originally posted by valhallan
:) That's very funny.
Best way to view them is to 'save as' onto your Desktop or Documents. Then you can place them in a folder for future viewing even if you're off-line.
The downlod still takes several minutes...but you can then play them with uninterrupted streamlining after the're saved.
Valhallan is right download the videos through save as or soem times you can, if your computer has the software, directly put them onto a DVD. It does take for ever to download them. I've often wondered if it is because they are from, I think, Lithuania. The site used to be part of the official site for the sports college when Lithuania was still part of the USSR. It is one of the oldest sites of its kind. I was once told that originally it was used for sports medicaine/kinesiology students to study while they were doing grad work at the university inLithuania.
It is areally great site. I have no idea how it is funded now.
Jazz Hands, is it part of the World 2005 videos or in another section. I've watched most of the freestyle videos inthe regular part.
Also, Twisting my upper torso and keeping my hips flat is very un-TI. Most TI swimming would tar & feather me. I just know that when I was first really coached, the coach always said to think of catapolting(sp) your body over your hands. That can only be done if you have a big shoulder twist. Oddly, when he was a younger man he won the Big 10 pole vaulting.
Originally posted by valhallan
:) That's very funny.
Best way to view them is to 'save as' onto your Desktop or Documents. Then you can place them in a folder for future viewing even if you're off-line.
The downlod still takes several minutes...but you can then play them with uninterrupted streamlining after the're saved.
Valhallan is right download the videos through save as or soem times you can, if your computer has the software, directly put them onto a DVD. It does take for ever to download them. I've often wondered if it is because they are from, I think, Lithuania. The site used to be part of the official site for the sports college when Lithuania was still part of the USSR. It is one of the oldest sites of its kind. I was once told that originally it was used for sports medicaine/kinesiology students to study while they were doing grad work at the university inLithuania.
It is areally great site. I have no idea how it is funded now.
Jazz Hands, is it part of the World 2005 videos or in another section. I've watched most of the freestyle videos inthe regular part.
Also, Twisting my upper torso and keeping my hips flat is very un-TI. Most TI swimming would tar & feather me. I just know that when I was first really coached, the coach always said to think of catapolting(sp) your body over your hands. That can only be done if you have a big shoulder twist. Oddly, when he was a younger man he won the Big 10 pole vaulting.
